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by manu.pant » Mon Feb 25, 2013 5:24 pm
By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and in in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.

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b. to sympathize with
c. for sympathizing with
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by aditya8062 » Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:22 pm
my take wud be [spoiler]:C [/spoiler]
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by aditya8062 » Mon Feb 25, 2013 6:34 pm
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when u put question plz put the complete question .i don't think gmat will ever give 3 choice ,atleast not in this life!!
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by sana.noor » Mon Feb 25, 2013 8:41 pm
i will go with C
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by Tommy Wallach » Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:56 pm
Hey Manu,

Agreed. Oftentimes people want to put up just a few answer choices, none of which are correct, to try to get a sense of which is "best". This is not a good idea. I don't personally like either of these examples:
By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and in in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.

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b. to sympathize with
c. for sympathizing with
Both "grounds to" and "grounds for" are correct idioms, so I'm not sure what case you can make for one over the other. I looked it up, and they are both legal. I don't buy this question, so let's ignore it.

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by manu.pant » Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:07 pm
By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and in in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.

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b. to sympathize with
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d. that they should sympathize with
e. that they should have sympathy for
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by Tommy Wallach » Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:57 pm
Hey Manu,

Thanks for that. I know the official answer is (C), but my understanding of idioms is that both (B) and (C) are justifiable, so I don't think this is realistic.

These are adequate grounds for divorce.
He said these are grounds to initiate a separation.

Both of those sentences are okay.

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by aditya8062 » Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:14 pm
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i got ur point but isn't "to sympathize" wrong because infinitive shows the intent of act but here no such intent is there
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by Tommy Wallach » Tue Feb 26, 2013 6:50 pm
Hey Aditya,

No, this is a separate idiom: "grounds to". So it isn't about intent.

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by sana.noor » Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:49 pm
I reject B just because it uses "to", which is mostly used for intentions. Tommy what if such questions appear in real test (gmat).
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by Tommy Wallach » Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:52 pm
Hey Sana,

Again, "to" is not being used for intention here. It's an idiom, much like:

He is thought to be a great man.
He is known to be a great golfer.
He admits to being a terrible person.

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by aditya8062 » Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:11 am
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i think ur and mine confusion was same : but here is the deal : the fact is that infinitive are used to convey intention BUT thats not the only use of infinitive .they can be used in many other ways !!
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by Tommy Wallach » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:17 am
Exactly right, Aditya!

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